Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 74.78
Liaison Daryl Pierson
Submission Date March 5, 2021

STARS v2.2

Portland State University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.75 / 14.00 Amanda Wolf
Program + Assessment Coordinator
Campus Sustainability Office
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Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 5,361 1,588
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 145 33
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 501 109

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
11.34

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
55

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
43

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
78.18

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :

For FY19, PSU updated its methodology for assessing sustainability-focused and -inclusive classes in our course inventory. PSU is moving toward assessing ourselves more broadly against Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and our inventory assessment reflects this. Courses that met AASHE's criteria for Sustainability-Focused were marked as such. Courses that met an SDG goal were marked as Sustainability-Inclusive.

PSU obtained a full list of all courses for FY19 Fall, Winter, and Spring terms (summer was not included). From that complete list, PSU generally excluded individually-directed courses, courses with four or fewer students, courses that are strictly practice-oriented. PSU counted each section (occurrence) of a course as an individual course. Similarly, cross-listed courses were counted as separate courses.


How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
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Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Sustainability course identification is considered to be a work in progress. The posted sustainability course inventory is not a complete list of all sustainability courses offered at PSU.


Sustainability course identification is considered to be a work in progress. The posted sustainability course inventory is not a complete list of all sustainability courses offered at PSU.

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